Carl Schurz

"My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right, if wrong, to be put right."
- Carl Schurz

Jack Nicholson

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
- Jack Nicholson

Andy Rooney

Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
- Andy Rooney

Mel Brooks

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
- Mel Brooks

Edward Teller

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
- Edward Teller

Helen Keller

The highest result of education is tolerance. Long ago men fought and died for their faith; but it took ages to teach them the other kind of courage, - the courage to recognize the faiths of their brethren and their rights of conscience. Tolerance is the first principal of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.
- Helen Keller

Voltaire

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
- Voltaire

Ronald Reagan

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
- Ronald Reagan

Edward Albee

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
- Edward Albee

François de La Rochefoucauld

"What we call virtues are often just a collection of casual actions and selfish interests which chance or our own industry manages to arrange [in a certain way]. It is not always from valor that men are valiant, or from chastity that women are chaste."
- François de La Rochefoucauld

Jean Cocteau

"The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness."
- Jean Cocteau

Buddha

"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
- Buddha

Whitney Moore, Jr.

"We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love."
- Whitney Moore, Jr.

Bruce Marton

"Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand."
- Bruce Marton

Dorothy Parker

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
- Dorothy Parker

John F. Kennedy

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Socrates

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

Lao-tzu

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao-tzu

Publilius Syrus

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly.
- Publilius Syrus

George W. Bush

We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans. We are fighting that enemy in Iraq and Afghanistan today so that we do not meet him again on our own streets, in our own cities.
- George W. Bush

Sir Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Woody Allen

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
- Woody Allen

J. K. Rowling

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling

George Carlin

I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free.
- George Carlin

John W. Gardner

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
- John W. Gardner

H. L. Mencken

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
- H. L. Mencken

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mark Twain

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.
- Mark Twain

Oscar Wilde

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.
- Oscar Wilde